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HOWTO: Recursively delete matching files on the Linux command line

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Austen

An easy way to recursively delete files matching a particular pattern is to use this one liner: find | grep "search" | perl -nle unlink UPDATE – Another handy one liner to recursively delete directories is: rm -rf `find . … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Recursive search and replace on the Linux command line

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Austen

The ‘traditional’ way to search and replace on the command line was to use some combination of grep/find/perl/sed etc. Which offers great flexibility but at the end of the day can turn into a right pain in order to complete … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Compiling the latest FFmpeg & x264 on CentOS 4

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Austen

Intoduction FFmpeg is a superb video processing tool used to encode and transcode video files. In this particular project I needed to build “youtube” style video upload which would transcode into FLV, specifically catering for video files from the Nokia … Continue reading →

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